Edo

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Yamada Family Residence Rice Storehouse
Osaka 江戸
Yamada Family Residence Rice Storehouse

The Yamada Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Sennan, Osaka, built in 1854 for tax rice, has three rooms with separate doors and now opens as a folk museum.

Yamada Family Residence Main House
Osaka 江戸
Yamada Family Residence Main House

The Yamada Family Residence Main House, rebuilt 1863 in Sennan, Osaka, keeps an early three-room plan, an earthen hall where tax rice was counted, and fine rooms.

Yamada Family Residence Main House
Osaka 江戸
Yamada Family Residence Main House

The Yamada Family Residence Main House in Kaizuka Jinaicho, Osaka, is a late Edo townhouse with a sliding-up entrance door. Its exterior can be seen from the street.

Yamada Family Residence Kitchen Wing
Osaka 江戸
Yamada Family Residence Kitchen Wing

The Yamada Family Residence Kitchen Wing in Sennan, Osaka, remodeled in 1921, keeps its earthen floor, well, stoves and sink under a ridge-top smoke vent.

Yamada Family Residence Storehouse
Osaka 江戸
Yamada Family Residence Storehouse

The Yamada Family Residence Storehouse in Sennan, Osaka, built in 1794, is the estate's oldest building: a two-storey plastered store under a detached okiyane roof.

Yamada Family Residence Earthen Wall
Osaka 江戸
Yamada Family Residence Earthen Wall

The Yamada Family Residence Earthen Wall in Sennan, Osaka, runs 82 meters in four stretches of tile-capped rammed earth, with stonework leveling the sloping lane.

Yamano Family Residence Main House
Osaka 江戸
Yamano Family Residence Main House

The Yamano Family Residence Main House is a late Edo farmhouse moved from Neyagawa to Katano in the late Taisho era, keeping its doma, six-room plan and guest wing.

Yamamoto Family Residence Main House
Osaka 江戸
Yamamoto Family Residence Main House

A late Edo thatched farmhouse of a village headman's family in Saidera, Suita, with a formal shikidai entrance, lean-to roofs all round and a slatted-ceiling parlor.

Yokoyama Family Residence Storehouse
Osaka 江戸
Yokoyama Family Residence Storehouse

At the back of the Yokoyama estate in Takatsuki, this late Edo storehouse of 5 by 4.1 m has a round-tile roof, a south gable door, lime plaster and hooded windows.

Yokoyama Family Residence Main House
Osaka 江戸
Yokoyama Family Residence Main House

Built in 1835 in Takatsuki's old castle town, this townhouse is the only surviving gōyado inn for villagers on official business, with dark lattices and white walls.

Yokoyama Family Residence Barn
Osaka 江戸
Yokoyama Family Residence Barn

Beside the storehouse in Takatsuki, this late Edo earthen barn of 10 by 5 m has plaster up to its eaves, latticed upper windows and a pickling room off its lean-to.

Yoshino Yakushido
Osaka 江戸
Yoshino Yakushido

In the satoyama hills of Nose, the northernmost town in Osaka, this thatched village hall enshrines the Medicine Buddha. Traced to 1555 and registered in 2004.

Yoshimura Family Residence Costume Storehouse
Osaka 江戸
Yoshimura Family Residence Costume Storehouse

In Kaizuka's temple town south of Osaka, the Yoshimura family traded oil and money as 'Izumiya.' Their late-Edo clothing storehouse survives by the Kishu Kaido.

Yoshimura Family Residence Main Building
Osaka 江戸
Yoshimura Family Residence Main Building

This registered merchant house in Kaizuka belonged to an oil and money-exchange family, set apart by guest rooms added on its south side in the late Edo period.

Yoshimura Family Household Goods Storehouse
Osaka 江戸
Yoshimura Family Household Goods Storehouse

This late-Edo earthen storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka was registered in 2003. Built for a money-changing family, it raises its floor on stone over a buried vault.

Risai Family Main Building
Osaka 江戸
Risai Family Main Building

The Risai family's main house in Kaizuka's self-governing temple town: a Registered Cultural Property with a stepped gable roof and a possible 17th-century core.

Risai Family Residence Storehouse
Osaka 江戸
Risai Family Residence Storehouse

In Kaizuka's old temple town, the Risai family ran an apothecary. Their late-Edo storehouse runs ten bays deep, the south half once stocked with medicinal herbs.

Wakayama Shrine Main Hall
Osaka 江戸
Wakayama Shrine Main Hall

Built in 1807 on a forested hilltop in Shimamoto, Osaka, Wakayama Shrine's main hall carries a forward-curving gable rare in the region, registered in 2018.

Yamada Family Residence Nagayamon Gate
Osaka 江戸
Yamada Family Residence Nagayamon Gate

The Yamada Family Residence Nagayamon Gate in Sennan, Osaka, is a late Edo gatehouse about 30 meters long whose tiled roof closes off the estate's forecourt.

Nakayama Family Residence Charcoal and Cotton Storehouse
Osaka 江戸
Nakayama Family Residence Charcoal and Cotton Storehouse

In front of the main house of a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo storehouse splits one roof between an earth-floored charcoal store and a cotton store.